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This show unites four artists who use utilitarian materials in their work. The impetus for it came from the curator’s wish to show the work of Irish artist Paul Mosse, renowned for his extraordinary use of materials such as sawdust and straw, in an international context. His work is perhaps most closely related to that of New Yorker Leonardo Drew, who fashions cascading sculptures from cast paper. Both share an intensive approach to the working of ostensibly limited materials.

German artist Kirstin Arndt’s complex abstract drawings made of wool and sculpture of wood and plaster, Without Title, above, similarly expand the limits of mundane materials, while New Yorker James Hyde’s nylon wall piece Transit refers to modernist painting. The dialogue between the pieces raises questions about form and the use of space, as the gallery is transformed by the exhibits. Taken together, the pieces question the